Trbusac, a small village near Vladimirci in Serbia, has a special historical significance for this country in the Balkans. In this village, right next to the main road, there are trees that have a great importance for anyone living in Serbia. Right at this place, in 1806, the leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, Karađorđe Petrović, stopped his army next to the big oaks, and the[…]
This is how the scenes from the stories of Milovan Glisic, Laza Lazarevic … are imagined… Just like the church in Jalovik, in the municipality of Vladimirci, is being conceived today. Sunday morning, about eight o’clock, when we arrived in the village. We come from the big city… the main one. From the place where everyone is drivving fast, furiously and impatiently, from the place where the trumpets are sounding,[…]
Is there Perfection? Those who claim that it does not exist will think once again about this when visiting the Kaona Monastery, near Vladimirci, in Western Serbia. Monastery buildings, churches, lake, auxiliary buildings, tourist facilities, perfectly maintained grass, all of which are ideally integrated into the untouched natural environment of the beautiful West of Serbia – nobody, no one can remain indifferent to this. When a man sees this beauty,[…]
As you pass through Debrc, a quiet place near the town of Vladimirci, Debrc, a village of barely 700 people, it’s hard to imagine that here, in the middle of the Macvan Plain, this used to be the capital of the Srem kingdom, the medieval Serbian state, headed by the powerful Serbian ruler Stefan Dragutin Nemanjic, grandson the first Serbian king, Stefan Nemanjic. Everything is slowed down now: in the[…]
If you go northwest from the beautiful mountain town of Krupanj in Serbia, towards Loznica and the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, about six miles from the city, just next to the road, you will be welcomed by a sight straight from a science fiction movie: smooth, stone arches forming a structure unlike anything you’ve seen before, except perhaps in a science fiction franchise Stargate. If you decide to park[…]
When it is realy hot in Vladimirci, and it is near 40 on the Celsius scale, people want only one thing: to cool off. If you are near Vladimirci, the best place to be is without a doubt an outdoor swimming pool in this place! The hosts tried this year not only to provide water and sun, but also organized a bar with drinks, music, and cultural and entertainment events[…]
Loud voices of local guys sitting next to the camp fire, making a bean soup in a large pot, while encouraging each other to go and grab a case of beer cooled in a nearby stream are the only thing breaking the perfect silence of the forest in central Serbia, near the beautiful town of Valjevo. As we approach, we are understanding what they are talking about: as it is[…]
Reuters, the biggest and most influential news agency in the World, published a story about the beautiful municipality of Krupanj, located in the woods of the Western Serbia. Here is the Reuters story: “Ivan Isailovic, mayor of the small Serbian town of Krupanj, is off next week to seek investors not in Munich or Paris, but in Istanbul – a sign of Turkey’s growing influence across the western Balkans that[…]
The first thing you notice as you are walking down the streets of Krupanj, a town in western Serbia, center of the region called Rađevina – is serenity. Unreal, as you think of the speed, the unimaginable speed of our everyday lives – an unexpected and completely disarming peace. As you try to avoid the cheerful gangs of children speeding through the center of this town, put into the endless[…]
When foreigners come to Belgrade, they usually stay there. When asked, “Why?”, the answer is “We do not know anything about the rest of Serbia. We do not know what to see, how to get there, where to eat, where to sleep, or anything, realy…” Come to Serbia must change this. We want to make Serbia outside Belgrade visible to tourists, by publishing great stories and photos about great tourist[…]